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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


Shell Game by Carol O'Connell

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Also by Carol O'Connell:

Blind Sight, October 2017
Mass Market Paperback
The Chalk Girl, July 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Find Me, January 2007
Hardcover
Winter House, November 2004
Hardcover
Dead Famous, October 2004
Paperback
Shell Game, August 2000
Paperback
Judas Child, August 1999
Paperback
Stone Angel, July 1998
Paperback
Killing Critics, July 1997
Paperback
The Man Who Cast Two Shadows, July 1996
Paperback
Mallory's Oracle, June 1995
Paperback

SHELL GAME
By: Carol O'Connell

Berkley
August 2000
Featuring: Kathleen Mallory
402 pages
ISBN: 0425176037
Paperback
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Mystery Police Procedural

Oliver Tree had spent his retirement years working out a solution to the Lost Illusion. Now, at last, he was about to give a death-defying performance in a sell-out festival of magicians in Manhattan.

In front of a live audience and the television cameras, four crossbow arrows were fired at their human target. The screams were real, and, tragically for Oliver Tree, so was the blood.

Even if Charles Butler, cousin of the late great Max Candle who had invented the Lost Illusion, was convinced along with eight million viewers that the trick had simply gone wrong, Detective Sgt Kathy Mallory knew instinctively that this was murder. A murder, curiously, that might be linked with the death of a woman half a century ago...

"O'Connell never ceases to amaze, producing what is surely her most stunning novel yet... anyone unmoved by the soul-shattering climax should give up reading fiction altogether" —Booklist

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